HIT ranked among 10 leading academic institutes

Check this out - HIT is ranked among the 10 leading academic institutes in Israel in a survey conducted by MSN Israel.

MSN לימודים - הדירוג האקדמי של ישראל לשנת 2007

I think this a credit to all of us...

I hope you are enjoying your summer and spending at least some of time to go to Art and Design related events.

You are invited to check out events in Jerusalem this week on:
http://www.jlm.israel.net/home

The Jerusalem Film Festival is starting today in the newly renovated Cinematheque building and on Satruday http://www.pacotek.com/ have an event near th Maabada theater...

Hope to see you there.

Mike
http://www.speakitz.com/
Your say Anywhere

Final presentations of the Industrial Design dept.

This is the schedule for the presentations of the final projects being presented by the students of the dept. of Industrial Design (click to enlarge) - you are all invited...

Panel pictures now available in the course gallery

I have uploaded a mass of pictures onto the course gallery.

1. The Panel gallery
2. We are the World gallery - Final exercise of the semester
3. The Tribe - The research of a cultural "Tribe"
   
4. Design in da'Hood gallery - Our neighborhood exercise

Enjoy!
see you next year...
: - )

Mike

Good Luck at the Panel tommorow

Hi all!

1. I want to wish you all good luck at the panel tommorow. Sleep well, wake up early, take a deep breath and BELIEVE IN YOURSELF!
   


2. I opened a Design club on Speakitz - A web 2.0 site with the advantage of allowing you to post notes directly on any site.
   
   Speakitz is now giving away a laptop to the most active member - worth trying out...

See you Tommorow...

GOOD LUCK!

Exercise 8 - The Sweetness After

Prepare a gift for your designated buddy - the format is free.

The present is a personal gift - something you would like to be remembered for or something that symbolises your buddy to you.

This is a great chance to make a final improvement to the impression yu have made during the semester - take advantage of it!

Good Luck,
Mike & Daniel

Mazal Tov Shani

Shani is now officially on line!!!

Woohoo
: - )

check it out:
http://shannyeliahu.blogspot.com

Freedom of Speech just got a whole lot freer

What if we could comment about any page on the web?
Why wonder - we now can!
Check out www.spickit.com

Good Shabbas!
Mike

Exercise 6 – Tribal Design

Since the dawn of mankind we have lived in Tribes.
With the globe shrinking due to improvements in communication we find ourselves redefining our identities. More and more of us see ourselves belonging less to nations and states and more to new tribal like associations: We define ourselves as skaters, tech-geeks, surfers, skinheads, punks, etc…

Over the next week you will conduct a research of the tribe you belong to or a tribe of your choice.

On the first lesson after the Ashram (7.5.07) you will present your research and the process that you have begun (sketches, models) during studio.

On Thursday the 10.5.7 you will present one of the following according to your choice:

1. A bill from your tribe's currency – 2D maximum 20cm*40cm.
2. The prize your tribe gives during it's annual award ceremony (your tribe's Oscar) – 3D 20cm*20cm*40cm.

Good Luck

Yaki is Online!!!

It's time for us to all congratulate Yaki who is our newest Blogger.

Woohoo!!!

http://blog.360.yahoo.com/yakir7x

Yom Haatsmaut Sameach All,
Mike

Mazal Tov Moran!

Check out Moran's new Blog.
Give Moran some positive feedback!

http://mornysh.blogspot.com/

A few art sites and communities I've run into:

It's been a while since I've published a lisy of new Art sites, communities, and magazines: so here goes:

www.virb.com - Virb is a community website that combines social interaction with music and entertainment exploration.

http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk - The Saatchi Gallery has always aimed to provide an innovative forum for contemporary art, presenting work by largely unseen young artists or by established international artists whose work has been rarely or never exhibited in the UK.

http://www.deviantart.com/ - Join the largest art community in the world! As a member, you can collect favourites, submit art, and track your friends and favourite artists (thanks Gil...).

Mazal Tov Keren!

A warm round of applause - Keren's Blog is now ONLINE!!!

Chag Sameach All,
Mike

Daniel and Mike's must see films for designers

Daniel and Mike's must see films for designers (the list is composed of movie title and director or leading actor-)

The list is not in order of preference
Enjoy

Ridley Scott
Blade Runner
Alien

Peter Greenway
The Cook, The Thief his Wife and The Lover

David Kronenberg
Naked Lunch

Alfred Hitchcock
The Birds
Vertigo

The Coen Brothers
Big Lebowski
Brother where art thou?

David Lynch
Blue Velvet

Francis Ford Coppola
Apocalypse now

Stanley Kubric
2001 A Space Odyssey
Dr Strange-Love
A Clockwork Orange

Peter Sellers
The Party

Ferrari
Le Grande Boufe (Blow Out)

Amir Kostarica
Arizona Dream
Underground

Merlin Monroe
Some Like it Hot

Charlie Chaplin
Modern Times

Terry Gilliam
Brazil

The Marx Brothers
A Night at the Opera

Monty Python
The Holy Grail
Life Of Brian

Humphrey Bogart
Casablanca

Woody Allen
Sleeper
Bananas

Walt Disney
The Jungle Book
Snow White

Fredrico Fellini
8.5

Jane Fonda
Barbarella

Quentin Tarantino
Reservoir Dogs
Kill Bill
Pulp Fiction

Kevin Smith
Clerks
Dogma
Mallrats